Hi, hyena king here! Well, I did it again. I haven't posted anything in a long while. And I'm sorry for that. Time for the epic climax to this story, finishing off clock-la for good! Let's get this ball rolling. Without further ado, here's chapter 37!
To say Murray and Bentley were In a bad situation would be a severe understatement. The battery they were hiding in was being carried by a badly damaged, enraged clock-la, prepared to do who knew what to the trapped duo. What's worse, the blimp was now being torn apart, hunks of metal flying everywhere. Amidst this falling debris, sly ran, jumping from one hunk of metal to another, using his natural agility and handy parachute to close the distance on the fiendish cyborg.
With a final leap, he glided through the air on his parachute, landing squarely onto clock-la's wing. She turned her head to regard the raccoon thief, yellow eyes blazing.
"You want a piece of me!?" She sneered. "Don't worry, there's plenty to go around."
"You may have a new body neyla, but you're still the low-down, backstabbing coward we've beaten time and time again." Was sly's response. "This won't be any different."
"Be brave while you can Cooper." Neyla snarled back. "I might not have the immortality born of pure hate, but I feel something...some power growing within me!"
With that, the final battle began, which mostly consisted of sly beating the villainous cyborg over the head with his cane. Easier said then done as clock-la responded to the abuse with fireballs from her eyes, causing sly to have to duck and serve to avoid getting incinerated. He continued to deliver blows as he evaded the onslaught, finally managing to severely damage one of her eyes. This accomplished, he ran along her shoulder to the left of her head, where they repeated the deadly dance, sly bashing, she shooting fireballs, until, with one final blow, he smashed her other eye.
That did it. Clock-la, now smoking like a stove pipe, dove towards the ground at high speed. Only minutes later, clock-la was sprawled on the ground, defeated and broken, or so it seemed at the moment. Sly, having jumped off the cyborg terror at the last minute, Bentley and Murray, having been cushioned from the attack by the battery, stood before their defeated nemisis, a look of amazement on their faces.
"We...we did it!" Sly exclaimed, his joy skyrocketing
"Right on!" Murray all but shouted, giving a little fist pump.
"It's an emotional moment." Bentley said, getting...well, emotional.
Then, out of nowhere, a voice cried out.
"Die insects, die! My hate will smash you!" This voice belonged to Jane, other then clock-la
"Watch out! That thing's still kicking!" Sly cried out in warning. The trio ran back, just as a field of lasers was generated by the robot menace. Despite not being able to move, she was still quite deadly.
"Clock-la mentioned something about a hate chip...it sounded like the source of her power." Bentley said, when they were out of range of the lasers.
"If we destroy it, she might stop attacking." Sly analyzed quickly, a plan already forming in his mind.
"Then let's do a little open head surgery!" Murray exclaimed, way ahead of the raccoon thief. "I'll pry open that beak so that Bentley can go to town with his bombs."
With that, the hippo surged forward, jumping through the gaps that the later field generated by clock-la provided. He made quick progress to her head, where, seizing hold of her upper beak, he lifted, with great strain, her beak to open her mouth. Once fully open, a hologram in the exact shape of neyla's face appeared, looking furious at the violation.
"I hate you Cooper gang! I'll find you in your sleep and destroy you!" You could tell from the tone of her voice that she was perfectly serious. "You will never know peace for the rest of your short miserable lives! Clock-la will know revenge...I am revenge, I am the alpha and the omega! Clock-la!"
While she was busy ranting, Bentley quickly made his own way over, his passage being a little dodgy thanks to his shorter stature. Once to her head, Bentley planted two bombs, which both exploded, but did little to no damage to the head.
"I still have my hate chip! You will not defeat me! Ever!" Clock-la shouted, clearly taking pride in that fact. Then, suddenly, her hologram disappeared, replaced with an image of Bentley's head. The turtle had hacked into her while she had ranted and overrode her programming. Bentley quickly entered her mouth and removed the hate chip, scurrying out and crying out. "Let's get out of here, she's about to explode!"
The beak of clock-la Tom this inopportune time to suddenly slam shut, trapping the screaming turtle inside. "My glasses..."
Wha...Bentley! I'll save you!" Murray cried, grabbing the beak to force it back open. Bentley twitched inside the mouth, looking at Murray to say. "Pick me up! I can't walk!" Murray did just that, saying. "C'mon sly, let's get out of here!"
No sooner had they turned to run then clock-la exploded, becoming a flaming hulk as bits of flaming metal rained from the sky.
All of this was observed coldly by Lord malice, back in his demonic flaming alicorn form. He had known neyla would betray her mentor from the beginning, and had even encouraged it. Clockwerk had been quite a useful ally, when he was alive any way. He had felt the cyborg's pain. Having what was rightfully yours taken by usurpers, thieves. He had hoped clock-la would be clockwerk's successor, (never minding having himself betrayed arpeggio by not warning him of neyla's impending betrayal. ) but, as it turned out, she was quite a pathetic shadow of the former immortal crime Lord.
Sighing, he opened a portal that would lead him home, looking in the direction where thunder lightning, and the elements were. He had waited this long. He can wait a little longer.
"Another day boys." He said as he went through the portal. "Another day."
and there you have it. For those of you still following this story, I apologize for the delays. Mostly I have jotted this down to real life issues, but you deserve the truth of why I haven't worked on this until lately. This story is quite a bit of a train wreck, with OCs, (suggested by a friend who will remain anonymous.) That came out of nowhere, my sudden change to dirtier contents, the plot holes. The seasons of mlp just whooshing by and leaving me in the canonical dust, and of course...my lack of inspiration. I apologize to all of you for that.
Now, where almost to the end of this maddening story, don't worry about that. I promise to do better in the future. R&R please.